From Bridgeport Hospital/Yale New Haven Health, Bridgeport, Connecticut, the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, the Department of Neurology, National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Department of Cardiology, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
South Med J. 2022 Dec;115(12):921-925. doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001477.
Since the advent of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 in December 2019, millions of people have been infected and succumbed to death because of this deadly virus. Cardiovascular complications such as thromboembolism and arrhythmia are predominant causes of morbidity and mortality. Different scores previously used for atrial fibrillation (AF) identification or prediction of its complications were investigated by physicians to understand whether those scores can predict in-hospital mortality or AF among patients infected with the severe acute respiratory syndromecoronavirus-2 virus. Using such scores gives hope for early prediction of atrial arrhythmia and in-hospital mortality among coronavirus disease 2019-infected patients. We have discussed the mechanisms of AF and cardiovascular damage in coronavirus disease 2019 patients, different methods of AF prediction, and compared different scores for prediction of in-hospital mortality after this viral infection.
自 2019 年 12 月严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2 型出现以来，全球已有数百万人感染并因此致命病毒而死亡。血栓栓塞和心律失常等心血管并发症是发病率和死亡率的主要原因。医生研究了先前用于房颤（AF）识别或预测其并发症的不同评分，以了解这些评分是否可以预测感染严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒-2 病毒的患者的住院死亡率或房颤。使用这些评分有望早期预测感染冠状病毒 2019 患者的心房性心律失常和住院死亡率。我们讨论了在 2019 年冠状病毒病患者中房颤和心血管损害的机制，房颤预测的不同方法，并比较了这种病毒感染后预测住院死亡率的不同评分。
